Best 357 quotes in «narrative quotes» category

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see it for the first time, and then I spend time with it, discover details and things I haven't seen, and then I have the moment when I decide to leave it.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in which the resonance of the words he chose struck him as exactly right (even though he didn't probe to discover exactly what tone or narrative device gave them that effect).

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.

Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.